#1969 riots

[jtwb768-babbles]

Stonewall and the Spark That Endures: The Uprising That Ignited a Global Movement

On the night of June 28, 1969, in the heart of New York City’s Greenwich Village, a riot broke out at the Stonewall Inn—a dingy, Mafia-owned gay bar on Christopher Street. It was not the first time police had raided a gay bar, and it was certainly not the first time queer patrons had been harassed, arrested, or assaulted for simply existing. But something was different that night. The resistance…

Stonewall and the Spark That Endures: The Uprising That Ignited a Global Movement

[beerswithqueers]

A Look Back at Stonewall: 54 Years Later

Listen To The Full Story Here: bio.site/beerswithqueers In the early hours of June 28, 1969, the Stonewall Inn—a modest bar nestled in New York City’s Greenwich Village—became the epicenter of a seismic shift in LGBTQ+ history. A routine police raid, emblematic of the era’s systemic harassment, ignited a spontaneous uprising as patrons and local residents resisted. This defiance unfolded over…

A Look Back at Stonewall: 54 Years Later

[nurinnadhirah]

"You know you Malays have this saying..

'di mana bumi dipijak, di situ langit dijunjung'.

It means 'where you plant your feet, is where you hold up the sky'.

"wherever you are you must follow what people there do..

–their custom their ways. So we bit our tongue when people whispered about us behind our backs, or made those sharp little comments to our faces, or even spit on our door. We paid our fees to the neighbourhood gangs regularly, so hooligans wouldn't cause us trouble. We knew they asked us for more than our neighbours, but we paid anyway."

"No choice. That was our sky."

—Hanna Alkaff, The Weight Of Our Sky